The Osterseen are a group of bodies of water south of Lake Starnberg in the Weilheim-Schongau district in Upper Bavaria. The southern and central Osterseen with the Großer Ostersee belong to the municipality of Iffeldorf, the northern Osterseen from the Stechsee and the Frechensee belong to the municipality of Seeshaupt. Iffeldorf is located around five kilometers by road northwest of Penzberg, 20 km southeast of the district town of Weilheim and 50 km south-southwest of the city center of Munich.
The 20 larger individual lakes have a total area of around 225 hectares and an average depth of around nine meters. The Kleiner Gröbensee and around 15 unnamed smaller lakes, each with an area of just a few hundred square meters, are not included here, seven of which are already heavily silted up.
The Easter lakes and the silting zone to the west are located in the landscape protection area “Protection of the Easter lakes and their surroundings in the communities of Frauenrain, Iffeldorf and Seeshaupt”. The area received this protected status in 1955.
The Osterseen nature reserve has also existed since 1981 with an area of 1,083 hectares. About a third of this is on the surface of the water bodies, 494 hectares are raised, low and intermediate bogs, and 172 hectares consist of semi-natural mixed forest. Around five percent of the Easter Lakes landscape is made up of riparian regions, siltation areas and meadows. The nature reserve is divided into three parts, which are separated from each other by the Kochelseebahn railway line and state road 2063: Southern Osterseen, Northern Osterseen and Frechensee. In May 1997, the Easter Lakes were declared to Brussels as a SPA (European Bird Sanctuary) and FFH area under the Fauna-Flora-Habitat Directive. Along with the Eggstätt-Hemhofer Lake District and the Seeoner Lakes, the area is considered the largest and most structurally rich ice decay landscape in the Bavarian Alpine foothills. The complex of boggy and nutrient-poor lakes, fens, transitional bogs and raised bogs alongside bog and swamp forests with its extraordinary diversity of species in the networked habitats, biotopes and ecological niches is important for basic scientific research across Europe.
The beauty of this landscape has repeatedly attracted artists. The painter Georg Schrimpf in particular, a main representative of the New Objectivity art movement, created several oil paintings of the Easter Lakes in the 1930s.

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osterseen

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Rainer & Petra

August 31, 2023

A wonderful nature reserve. Hiking trails (also for cyclists) lead around the Eastern Lakes. Some great swimming areas with sunbathing areas and small beaches.

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Location: Iffeldorf, Weilheim-Schongau, Landkreis Weilheim-Schongau, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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